InkOnScreen

Presentations on a computer can now be performed without the physical presence of individuals, but group presentations also benefit from a whole range of applications. For instance, InkOnScreen is a nifty tool you can use to draw just about anything on screen to enhance live presentations.

The application is portable, and this means you can take it for a spin as soon as it reaches your computer. You can have it stored on a thumb drive in case you want to have a presentation enhancement tool at hand at all times. Registry entries are not affected during runtime, so there’s no need to worry about affecting the target PC’s stability.

It minimizes to the tray area on launch, and interacting with it brings up a small menu which lets you start the whole process. During this time, you can’t interact with any other elements in the background, even though they’re visible. This slightly affects overall practicality, because you always need to switch between modes.

A pretty compact palette of options is put at your disposal, with several color selections to easily emphasize different regions of interest. Several different brush types are also available, but there’s no option to increase the size of the brush.

There are several more tools than just brushes. For instance, you can select particular regions and have them moved across the desktop, and even resized. A couple of erasers help either remove parts, or entire components. The missing tool here is the option to add text.

Sadly, drawings become invisible once you switch to desktop mode, and become visible once you enter edit mode. Everything is cleared at the press of a button, and there’s also the possibility to have the project saved as a JPG picture.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that InkOnScreen is a suitable presentation enhancer, but not really packed with a great deal of tools to provide the flexibility you need. Unfortunately, you need to cease all other desktop activities, which is pretty disturbing, especially since drawings don’t remain visible when in desktop mode.